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I would like to share a personal experience that has completely changed my understanding of the importance of regular medical checkups and early cancer detection. My wife and I live in Vancouver, Canada. In October 2024, during a visit to Japan, my wife underwent a routine comprehensive medical examination, known as Ningen Dock, at Sakurajyuji Clinic. She had absolutely no

I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at 35 years old on July 20, 2025. This happened to be on my one-year wedding anniversary. I had launched a startup earlier that year, starting to plan to grow our family, and caring for my mother who was battling ovarian cancer. Life has a way of throwing you curveballs, and cancer was definitely

Early detection of any cancer greatly increases the likelihood of successful treatment, often with less aggressive therapies.  This is especially true in the case of “silent cancers” which evade detection because they have no symptoms, or if they do, the symptoms are easily explained by a more benign condition, such as a cough that is attributed to allergies, when the

I was fifty-five, and by every measure I was thriving. I taught fitness classes, I competed in tennis, and I moved through my days without a second thought about my health. If you had told me that cancer was somewhere inside me, I would have laughed — never in a million years did it seem possible. The only sign was

It is completely understandable to find the intersection of psychiatry and oncology both fascinating and a big daunting.  Exploring the idea that mental health symptoms might serve as early warning signs for physical diseases challenges how we traditionally view the mind-body connection.  When asked by the Eradicate Cancer Foundation — as a long-time psychiatrist practicing in California, BC and now

As a Canadian woman, I am very concerned and anxious about the status of breast cancer detection in Canada now. My understanding has always been that I am not in the ‘highest risk’ category because I don’t have a first degree relative family history of breast cancer. But, as I recently discovered after reading my last 2 mammogram reports, I

The UK has passed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, creating a “smoke-free generation” by banning the tobacco sales to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009.  Effective from January 1, 2027, the legal age to buy tobacco will rise by one year, every year. The Bill, aimed at reducing National Health Service (NHS) pressure, also restricts vape marketing to

I have purchased & lived in 7 different real estate properties across Canada in Gatineau, Ottawa & Vancouver over the past many years. And, I have never thought of asking some vital questions before closing the various purchase agreements. I never knew how living in any of the above condo apartments & houses could have caused and given me lung